Automount not working on bootup?

automount does't work on 8.10? I reloaded 8.04 and it works fine on bootup. I believe the system sees the drive on bootup of 8.10, but once loaded, no icon for the USB hard drive(iomega 80 GB). I would like to tun the new operating system, but all my backups are on the USB drive. Any help would be appreciated. I would need help on command line generation though.
Thanks,